On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Glynn Clements wrote:
>However, retrieval is generally the problem. AFAIK, POP3 daemons
>generally use /etc/passwd to validate users, so if you want to let
>people collect their mail by POP3 (they have to get it somehow,
>right?), you either have to give them an account, modify pop3d to use
Usually not a problem with a POP3 client such as Pegasus mail. They do use
/etc/passwd to authenticate, so as you pointed out, create the account, set
the shell to /bin/false (or somehting similar) and you have no shell access but
the mail is still retrievable. I�ve set it up this way many times and have not
had any troubles.
MfG
Robert
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